City Council Faces Mystery Over Zarzamora Street Work
City records show no minutes approving Zarzamora street grading and macadamizing for 15 blocks from Fredericksburg Road to Kentucky Avenue at an estimated cost near 7000. Aldermen older and new deny knowledge or authority, leaving the project unaccounted in council action or appropriation.
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Zarramora
Fredericksburg
Kentucky Avenue
San Antonio
Menger
Erichenger
Zarramora Street
Zarmora Street
B. J. Mauermann
Finance Committee
Zarzaora Street
Sherman Mauermann
Lambert
Zarzamora
L. Richter
John Wickeland
Lipscomb
Mantell Actress Marie Booth Mantell Dies at Home
Mrs Marie Booth Mantell wife of actor Robert C Mantell dies at her summer home Brucewood Atlantic Highlands New Jersey after a yearlong illness from heart failure. Her stage debut was 1894 in The Blanche and she joined her husband's company in 1897. she starred in Shakespearean roles including Lady Macbeth Ophelia Desdemona and Juliet.
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Tlantic Highlands
N. J
Marie Booth Mantell
Robert C. Mantell
Brucewood
Ir. Mantell
Bruced
Mantell
Mr. Man
The Light Claims Dominant Circulation in San Antonio Area
The Light asserts 70 percent higher weekday and Sunday circulation in San Antonio than any competitor and 75 percent more direct home delivery. It also claims the widest nonpaid reach into cities within 100 miles, listing Austin to Del Rio, ready to prove the figures to advertisers.
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the Light
San Antonio
Austin
San Marcos
New Braunfels
Boerne
Kerrville
Yoakum
Beeville
Kenedy
Karnes City
Hallettsville
Victoria
Shiner
Cuero
Corpus Christi
Aransas Pass
Laredo
Uvalde
Eagle Pass
del Rio
Masked Men Hold Up Train in Tennessee
Six masked gunmen robbed the westbound Rock Island No 43 between Memphis and Hurlburt Ark early this morning. They blew open the express car safe with nitro caps, wrecked the car, and escaped toward the Mississippi river. little loot reported. Posse efforts began at daybreak.
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Associated Press
Memphis, Tenn
Rock Island
Memphis
Hurlburt
Ark
Mississippi River
Twenty Four Drown When Steamer Sinks
The French steamer Dioliabah sank at sea with twenty four lives lost while towing the steamer Liberia for Marseilles. The Liberia fouled the Dioliabah and was later picked up by the German steamer Elmshorn and brought to Las Palmas Canary Islands on November 1.
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Associated Press
Las Paeamas
Canary Islands
Dioliabah
Liberia
Marseilles
Elmshorn
San Antonio and Vicinity Weather Update
Night and Thursday forecast for San Antonio and nearby areas calls for fair skies, cooler temperatures, and frost tonight. Highs drop into the 50s with low temperatures near freezing in low-lying areas, prompting light jacket warnings and cautious outdoor plans.
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San Antonio
Weather outlook for tourists across major cities
Observation at 8 a.m. reports temperatures ranging from 18 in St Paul to 56 in Boston and Washington. Expect continued cloudiness with rain and colder conditions, winds mainly from the north and northwest. Cities include Chicago St Louis Milwaukee St Paul Kansas City New York Boston Washington.
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Chicago
ST Louis
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
San Antonio Light Decries AP Wire Sharing Claim
The statement dismisses as unfounded any claim that the Associated Press leased wire used in San Antonio is carried in whole or part by a newspaper other than the San Antonio Light. It asserts no basis in fact for such assertions.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Navy fleet inspection by Secretary Meyer in New York
One hundred fighting ships of the U S Navy steamed into the Hudson for the first formal mobilization event. Secretary George von L Meyer aboard the Mayflower led a day of luncheons and inspections, with senators and other officials aboard as the fleet, including all 24 battleships then in commission, displayed bunting under clear autumn skies.
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Associated Press
New York
United Sates
George von Ll. Meyer
Hudson Liver
United States Navy
Connecticut
Taft
Meyer
Senate
House
Naval Affairs
Twentythird Street
Osterhaus
Ratra
Senate Committee On
Penrose
Pennsylvania
House Committee
Brises
Marline
New Jersey
Boot
Cameron McA. Winslow
Barton Hepburn
Wickersham
Hitchcock
Interior
Fisher
Commercce
Nagel
Lutz
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Melville E. Stone
Contracts Awarded for Moving Troops from Camp
Major Rolfe of Fort Sam Houston announced contracts for transporting maneuver camp troops to home stations. Each contract requires ready cars and equipment. First train load may depart Monday. Awards include Twenty-eighth Infantry to Fort Snelling at 19.42 per man, Seventeenth Infantry to Fort McPherson at 14 per man, Eleventh Cavalry to Fort Oglethorpe at 16.48, Signal Corps to Fort D. A. Russell at 21.60, Engineers to Fort Leavenworth at 13.44. Departure schedules to be announced tomorrow after rail arrangements. The Twenty-second Infantry left for Leon Springs. Third Cavalry to leave for the reservation tomorrow.
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Robert H. Rolfe
Fort Sam Houston
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Fort Snelling
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Seventeenth Infantry
Fort McPherson
Galveston
Harrisburg
San Antonio
Eleventh Cavalry
Fort Oglethorpe
International
Great Northern
Co. ‘S, Signal Corps
Fort
D. A
Third Cavalry
Chartered to Do Business in San Antonio
Chartered today J R Sprague Company of San Antonio with 20000 capital In corporators J R Sprague Alfred G Munro and Neil Cumne chartered to do business in Texas per official notice in Austin November 1.
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Austin
Tex
J. R. Sprague Company of
San Antonio
Con Ae
J. KR
Spr c
Alfred G. Munro
Neil Cunme
Frost Forecast For Southwest Texas Gardens
Truck farmers are warned to cover tender plants as the Weather Bureau predicts frost tonight in Southwest Texas. Ground temperatures may drop to 32 degrees between evening and tomorrow morning, risking third frost in ten days. A heavy frost damaged truck gardens on October 22, with a lighter frost on October 23 driving the frost area eastward.
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Texas
Weather Bureau
Cotton Belt
Cold Wave From Gulf Expected to Reach South
A tropical storm that moved from Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico has exited into the Atlantic near Florida. The first cold wave of the season appeared in the northwest and is expected to travel south to reach the gulf and South Atlantic states by Thursday and Friday, with frosts likely except in southern Florida.
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Washington
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic
Atlantic
Florida
Weather Bureau
Gulf
South Atlantic States
Northers Bring Cold Ground Weather to Panhandle
A norther accompanied by high wind and sleet struck Dalhart Texas today with a rapid temperature drop. Ten inches of rain have fallen in ten days, while fall wheat is in fine condition and cattle on the range have ample feed and water.
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Norther
Panhandle
RYTH + PRESS
Dalhart
Tex
Texas
Realty transfers in Harris Octotal reach 1 696 142
Realty transfers placed on record in Harris County for October totaled 1,696,142 dollars. Local properties transferred include Houston area holdings and surrounding parcels as recorded by the Harris County registry.
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Houston
Tex
Harris
Train Collision Kills Madero Aide in Mexico
The special Mexican Central train carrying President elect Madero collided head on with a freight train near Gomez Palacio. Trainmaster Alberto Sanchez was killed. Six federals and one Maderista died in a later street clash in Torreon. Maderistas and federal soldiers fought, then Maderistas fled to the hills. 150 more may join them.
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Associated Press
Torreon
Mex
Mexican Central Railroad
Madero
Chihuahua
Gomez Palacio
Alberto Sanchez
Alberto Madero
Abram Gonzales
Pasqual Orozco
Maderista
Durangey
Hold Up Report From Waco Details Struggle On Street
John Daniels, a farmer near South Bosque in Waco Texas, was attacked by two men late last night. One man grabbed him around the waist while the other struck or restrained him. No firearms were used.
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Waco
Associatiwd Press
Tex
John Daniels
South Bosque
Schemed for Cheap Meals Goes Insane in Lunacy Trial
E J Never proposed steam cooking to turn 1 dollar of steak and 12 cents of coffee into luxury meals and envisioned ten cent full meals at a chain. He claimed tree grafting would yield bananas from oaks and oranges from mesquite, outBurbanking Luther Burbank. Rev S P Benbrook testified Never is a Nebraskan with family in Nebraska.
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E. J. Newer
Luther Burbank
Rev
S. P. Benbrook
The
Society For the Friendless
Texas Supreme Court Partly Rules on Veto and Law Status
Texas Supreme Court rules that a governor veto was late for a $25,000 codification bill, making it a law without signature. It orders the secretary of state to file the law while noting potential broader conflicts with other bills and court decisions. The decision affects mandamus questions and may affect several related court and school district matters.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Supreme Court of Texas
R. B. Minor
Colquitt
Secretary of State
Brown
Mare
Stinton
McDonald
el Paso
Amarillo
Amarillo Court
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Wolters
Dallas
Court of Sopoets
G. Co. & Santa Fe Railway
Blum Independent
County Commissioners’ Court
Board of Equalization
Altercation In a Saloon Near Bismarck
A report in The Light yesterday mistook the location of a clash between Tom Gwaltey and Milton Riley. The incident, in which Riley was seriously cut in the throat, occurred in a saloon not far from the Bismarck.
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Bismarck
Tom Gwaltey
Milton Riley
Riley
Bis+ marck
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Council
Clerk Fries
Robert Mantel
Tennessee
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Northern Atlantic Squadron
Madead
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Ki.t. Newer
Poor Man’s Restaurant
Asylum
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